Catherine Hardwicke Signs On As Heathen’s Director

by Erik Amaya

The feature film adaptation of Heathen has found its director: Twilight and Red Riding Hood director Catherine Hardwicke

Based on the Vault Comics title by Natasha Alterici, the story centers on a Viking woman named Aydis. A self-proclaimed heathen and outcast among her kin, she sets out to end the oppression of women throughout the land and the tyrannical rule of God-King Odin. The book was selected by the Young Adult Library Service Association to be included in its 2018 “Great Graphic Novels For Teens” list.

“The entire Heathen team and I are incredibly excited about adapting my little lesbian viking comic for film, especially with a kindred spirit like Kerry writing it,” said Alterici in a statement back in April. “I’ve been a film fanatic for longer than I’ve been a comics fans, and that my working in one format would lead to another is nothing less than a dream come true.”

Erik Amaya

Host of Tread Perilously and a Film/TV Writer at Comicon.com and Rotten Tomatoes. A former staff writer at CBR and Bleeding Cool, and a contributing writer at Fanbase Press and Monkeys Fighting Robots. Voice of Puppet Tommy on The Room Responds. A seeker of the Seastone Chair and the owner of a Legion Flight Ring. Sorted into Gryffindor, which came as some surprise.